# scrubbed

Pronunciation: say "SKRUBD" /skɹʌbd/

## Verb

1. Past tense and past participle of scrub. — simple past and past participle of scrub
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of scrub. Used for the past, or after have or was.
   - _She scrubbed the pot with steel wool to get the burned rice off._
   - _The editor scrubbed back through the footage to find the moment the door opened._

## Adjective

2. Cleaned by being scrubbed.
   - Simple: Made clean by rubbing hard.
   - _Freshly scrubbed potatoes went straight into the oven with their skins on._
   - _Visitors were shown into a spotless, scrubbed kitchen that smelled of bleach._
3. Having washed one's hands by operating-room protocol and put on a sterile gown and sterile gloves.
   - Simple: Having washed your hands in the special way needed for surgery and put on a germ-free gown and gloves.
   - _Once scrubbed, the surgeon kept her hands above her waist and away from anything unsterile._
   - _A scrubbed technician passed instruments across the sterile field._
4. Rubbed hard, as with a brush or cloth, to make it clean.
   - Simple: Rubbed hard, for example with a brush or a cloth.
   - _The kitchen had a long scrubbed pine table, pale and worn smooth at the edges._
   - _After an hour with a wire brush, the scrubbed hull showed bare metal in patches._
5. Stunted or undersized in growth.
   - Simple: Smaller than normal because it did not grow well.
   - _A line of scrubbed oaks clung to the ridge, bent low by years of wind._
   - _The scrubbed cattle of the dry upland were half the size of the valley herds._

## Origin

Formed from scrub + -ed.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/scrubbed (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).